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DFSMS Cloud Data Access

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API Calls in Java in addition to assembler, Cobol and C++

I have customers who writes all the programs for mainframe in Java. New developers are better writting Java code rather than others. The tools for development are in workstation and they test their programs on the workstation. My idea is to have t...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Save Cloud Credentials, in ICSF, via Batch job instead of GDKAUTHP ISPF Panel.

we would like to be able to save credentials (GCP Service Account Json file) via a Batch job instead of manually updating them (GDKAUTHP ISPF Panel). This could be done by submitting a batch job from a pipeline service, in combination with a new K...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Support TLSv1.3 with CDA and GDK through its provider files

TLSv1.3 is the most recent version of SSL available and it provides enhanced encryption while removing insecure algorithms that were available in prior versions of the protocol. The handshake is more efficient. Sites might mandate using TLSv1.3 or...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Enhance CDA for Signed Payload and Improve Tracing

The Provider files do not currently have the parms needed to support SIGNED Payload, currently it's only support "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD" to use a signed payload we need to enhance CDA. Currently there is no tracing until the TOOLKIT is called as that i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Mainframe utility to access S3 for store and retrieval

With increased use of the cloud we are facing a need to have S3 interface available on z/OS for transferring data between z/OS and the cloud.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Add Azure Support for CDA

We would like support in z/OS 2.4 to transfer data to and from MS Azure file and blob storage.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 3 Delivered

GDK KEYFILE and providers on DB2 base rather than on Unix file.

We plan to use CDA on CICS/IMS environment, so in transactional process and not in batch mode. Because i can have many transactions per minute who used CDA we will prefer to have the configuration unix files on a database (for exemple DB2) rather ...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

GDKU0013I Add local name is DD:LOCAL

Hello, The objective is to have the name of the files transferred to the bucket (endpoint / Data_source / Data in object storage), without having to go to DEBUG with GDKU0013I With level(debug) DEBUG: DD:LOCAL is DataSet: true, name: FILE.NAME DEB...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

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